Quote:
"In 1969, Rat Life and Diet in North America (14 min.) became an underground success, though some of the New York group may have thought it un-hip. [Joyce] Wieland shot her rats (gerbils) for six months, putting different things in their glass cages for each sequence. Finally, after putting them in the sink in an inch of water, she 'began to see what the film was about ... a story of revolution and escape.'"
-- Hugo McPherson

Source:
McPherson, Hugo. "Wieland: An epiphany of north." Artscanada, no. 158/159, August-September 1979. (p. 27)